Comments on: timezones and when you get mail http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2008/04/20/timezones-and-when-you-get-mail/ Ramblings which occasionally resemble reality. This is the blog of Stewart Smith. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:01:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2008/04/20/timezones-and-when-you-get-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-88645 Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:35:14 +0000 http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/?p=1079#comment-88645 The most extreme case for me (based in California) is visiting India. Nothing happens during the day; but when I wake up whole mail threads have started, flamed out and settled down. Which sometimes is good and sometimes is not. I wrote about this some time ago [1]. I think some people still forget the cost of inter-TZ communication. If the overlap is very small, the impact can be very big. - eduard/o [1]http://weblogs.java.net/blog/pelegri/archive/2003/08/distance_in_the.html The most extreme case for me (based in California) is visiting India. Nothing happens during the day; but when I wake up whole mail threads have started, flamed out and settled down. Which sometimes is good and sometimes is not.

I wrote about this some time ago [1]. I think some people still forget the cost of inter-TZ communication. If the overlap is very small, the impact can be very big.

– eduard/o

[1]http://weblogs.java.net/blog/pelegri/archive/2003/08/distance_in_the.html

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